Hah, “You’ve been eating trash”
Apple Rankings
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#122I did a taste test some years ago and Fuji won by a good margin. And this was in the US even -- I've heard they're better in Japan, but I was really pleased with their quality here. BTW, all my testing was with organic apples, if that makes a difference.
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#123Per other commenters, Granny Smith gets downranked for being a mediocre apple for eating plain in-hand, but it's great for using in salads. We have a Granny Smith apple tree and we dry all the apples in a dehydrator and it makes the best apple chips.
Granny Smiths are also good for baking in general. They have a twang to them that offsets some of the sweet, as well as being a crunchy apple that doesn't turn to mush during the cook.
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#124Without going into the contents of the article, I was surprised to learn recently the number of varieties of apple available. Then I learned apple sweetness and tartness rankings is a thing. I don’t understand why so many exist and need to exist. Why didn’t the whole market just coalesce on a few(2/3) varieties? Do people actively seek a specific variety and all these are in vogue?
? Thats the way it was just a few decades ago. Red delicious, and Granny smith.
Now we have more choices, which is good because apples are a species that produce offspring that is frequently quite different than the parents. Meaning every single one of those supermarket apples is the product of a long dead tree being propagated.
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#125How many klicked thinking it was something related to apple
Everyone? It is about apple(s)
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#126A lot of terrible eating apples are great for baking, Granny Smith for example. Also, red delicious _used_ to be, well, delicious. But selective breeding made them taste terrible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious Wonder if the same will happen to other popular varieties, or if apple growers know better now.
> A lot of terrible eating apples are great for baking, Granny Smith for example.
There's no accounting for taste. Grany Smith is my favourite eating apple.
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#127The annoying thing about this website is I can't find anywhere that lists the apples by rank, in any of their 12 categories. A ranking website should, y'know, rank things.
If you click on the "Pick an Apple" menu tab it shows the list of apples by rank, https://applerankings.com/pick-an-apple/
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#128Yawn, more of this silly apple snobbery. Yes, honey crisp is a good apple, but red delicious is also fine. The difference in taste between table/dessert apples is mostly personal preference. Get over yourselves, you are not better than the many people who prefer red delicious, and your palette is not more refined. I've met apple farmers who rather like red delicious, surely it's not because the poor wretches just don…
> but red delicious is also fine
I was prepared to agree with you on pretty much any apple except red delicious. They are absolutely disgusting and leave no room for preference or taste. They're flavorless and mealy. I wouldn't give one to my worst enemy.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
ARPANET was developed by neither China nor India.
Neat. The country of origin doesn't determine the quantity of people using it.
I was defending the right of the US to be "the default on the internet" as stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33640903
"First!" usually trumps quantity.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
ARPANET was developed by neither China nor India.
What does that have to do with anything?
I was defending the right of the US to be "the default on the internet" as stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33640903